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Birmingham is a great place to live and study; although you probably already know that if you’re looking for a house here. It’s the UK’s second biggest city which means it’s big enough to have all the amenities of a large city but small enough so you can get around it easily.

The best bits of Birmingham are the shopping (the Bullring is one of the biggest shopping centre’s in Europe); and the nightlife, you’ll never get bored in the evening as Birmingham has loads of places to go out from Broad Street to the Arcadian, to the Jewellery Quarter to the Custard Factory, comedy clubs and even theMailbox for something a bit special? What’s more; you’ve got all the culture of a major city with the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, NEC, Symphony Hall and many others. For
adventure lovers the many parks and nearby Lickey Hills provide great open spaces for running, walking, cycling or other outdoor pursuits. We’ve put together below a few of the good bits and bad bits of the areas we cover in the surrounding areas:

Right in the heart of the student community for the University of Birmingham.

Good selection of bars, pubs, restaurants and cafe’s. Make sure you check out the Selly Sausage cafe for their legendary pancakes.

Getting to the University of Birmingham only takes a matter of minutes walking and the train to the city centre from Selly Oak Station only takes about 7 minutes. Plus the University is the only one in the country to have its own railway station.

Bad Times

The Bristol Road which runs through the area is known to be really bad for traffic but the new bypass is helping this already.

Because it is a student area it can be a little noisy!

Parking can be a pain sometimes; if you don’t need your car it’s probably easier to leave it at home.

Selly Park properties

The Accommodation for Students – Birmingham Purple Frog team

Greg White

Co-Founder

Greg is one of the founders of Purple Frog, he graduated in 2007 with a 2:2 in Computer and Electrical Engineering with Business from the University of Birmingham.
Greg oversees business development across our businesses with particular focus on the development and investment side of properties in which our tenants live.
Greg loves sharing our company journey, regularly speaking or being involved in university events. Often found on the ski slopes, he enjoys being active and trying to keep fit.

Patrick Garratt

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Patrick is one of the founders of purple frog, he graduated in 2007 alongside Greg with a 2:1 in Business from the University of Birmingham. As part of his degree he was required to write and submit a business plan and decided he may as well see it through!
Patrick spends time in each of our 4 offices and is often accompanied by his black lab Hugo.

Ben Holdnall

Senior Property Manager

Ben has been with purple frog for over 5 years and has been running our property management team for most of that time.
Before joining purple frog Ben used to work as a contractor in student properties so he's got hands on knowledge too and has experience of most maintenance issues we may come across.
Outside of work Ben enjoys expanding his horizons and travelling the world, he's recently been to Russia and is also a keen linguist... ask him to show off some of his Mandarin!

Claire Pace

Lettings Administrator - Operations Centre

Claire is the friendly voice reminding our tenants to complete all their paperwork to secure their new homes. She makes sure all the paperwork is correct, i's dotted, t's crossed to make sure moving in goes as smoothly as possible. (Claire works Monday to Thursday.)

Sara-Anne Bricknell

Senior Lettings Adviser - Birmingham

Sara is a 3rd year student at BCU studying Public Relations and has lived in a purple frog house for three years now so she is perfect to help our students find their next home! Sara is also learning Mandarin and loves practicing with our international students.

Jack Heath

Assistant Property Manager - Birmingham

Jack is our resident fixer, he's out and about most of the day helping our tenants with all kinds of problems. If Jack is on the case you know a solution will soon be found. In his spare time Jack can be found treading the boards in local theater productions.

Shaun Knight

Assistant Branch Manager - Birmingham

Shaun studied sport studies at the University of Worcester so he knows what it's like to be in the shoes of our tenants. He's an affable character who loves helping our tenants find the right home and keeping our landlords up to date.

Kamila Dabrowska

Operations Team - Operations Centre

Kamila started with us as an apprentice in 2014 and has since succesfully completed her couse and knows everything admin in the Purple Frog office, her specialties so far are council tax, utilities and keeping on top of paperwork. We are confident that one day she'll be running the place!

Sabrina Courts

Operations Manager - Operations Centre

Sabrina looks after the nitty gritty stuff which goes on behind the scenes, making sure everything from council tax to welcome packs and contracts are all prepared and organised correctly. Sabrina is unfortunately a Birmingham City Football Club supporter and hasn't missed a home or away match in over 5 years!

Sam Hubbard

Junior Property Manager

Sam is local to Selly Oak so knows the area well, she loves looking after our tenants and landlords. Sam's a big dog lover so Hugo (our office dog) is always following her around. At home Sam has a very cute Border Terrier called Rossi. Sam also had hiccups every day for three years whilst at school.

Paul Somerfield

Senior Lettings Negotiator - Birmingham

Paul attended Cheltenham University, so he understands what its like being a student trying to find the right property. He has also recently invested in a property, giving him a good knowledge and understanding of the property market.
In his spare time he enjoys playing table tennis and he has a very weird fear of messy wires.

Bilal Khan

Accounts

Bilal is a wiz with numbers and is happy to help any of our tenants of landlords with their queries. He's is currently completing accounting qualifications at the same time as working at purple frog,... we make sure he finds enough time to unwind though!

Stephen Haigh

Business Development Manager - Property Sales

Stephen heads up Purple Frog’s Property Sales division across Birmingham, Bristol and Nottingham and has a wealth of experience in the industry. He has a breadth of knowledge about helping first time to portfolio investors achieve their goals.
In his youth Stephen was a Rock Star in the band Soup which was known for its West Coast psychedelic music and regularly played in the University of Birmingham Guild of Students bar.

Chris Whiley

Branch Manager - Birmingham

Chris joined Purple Frog after a 12 month sabbatical travelling the world. Before he went away he spent several years working in Residential Lettings, Management and Sales for a company in Birmingham City Centre. Outside of work Chris is an avid sports fan and fitness fanatic who plays hockey for a local team.

Emma-Leigh

Operations Coordinator

Emma-Leigh is the lovely person who makes sure that your deposits are returned as quickly and smoothly as possible.
She combines this with being a third-year student at UoB and painting lovely paintings of 'nudes with colourful hair'.

Haroon Marshall

Accounts Administrator

Haroon is learning a lot about accounts. He's already mastered credit control, invoicing and adding new Go Cardless accounts. And he's eager to learn more!
Outside the office, you can see him perform as hip hop legend H Dott. He's also pretty nifty on the Asian drums, too.

Theresa Meally

Operations Administrator

As part of the operations team, Theresa is your first contact for all things paperworky. She’s here to help with contracts, guarantors, tenancy questions…everything! Theresa is Irish and there’s nothing she likes more than returning to the old country, stoking up the peat fire, pouring a glass of poteen and talking about the old days – she can trace her family history back to the 17th Century. If she’s not doing that, she’s watching the Kilkenny Cats thrashing their deadly rivals the Cork Rebels in the Hurling.

Katie Doak

Lettings Advisor

If you call the office, it will probably be Katie’s friendly voice you hear first. Chatty, happy and bubblier than a bottle of warm Prosecco, she’s always happy to help!
When asked about her accomplishments, she mentioned the fact she makes a cracking cuppa. Which is just another reason she's such an important member of the team.

Bina Choudury

Letting Assistant

Looking for your prefect student place in Birmingham? Speak to Bina. She's part of the team in Selly Oak who will show you round properties, answer any questions and book in any viewings you want to make. She wins the prize for shortest person in the whole company - she has a standing height of 5'1".

Lundy Blake

Ledger Clerk/Credit Controller

Lundy works in the accounts team to keep the company’s financial records in tip top order. Outside of crunching the numbers, her passion is helping young people to achieve their potential through counselling and mentoring. That’s pretty awesome, Lundy.

Sophie Hack

Student blogger

Sophie is a journalist and blogger currently in her final year of a Media and Communications course at Birmingham City University. She loves writing stories about Birmingham, as well as interviewing bands and writing about the things that interest students the most. In her free time, Sophie is an avid video game addict. If she’s not glued to her games console, she's teaching herself Japanese with hopes to travel to Japan one day.

Akash Nabi

Letting Negotiator

If you're looking for your new student place in Birmingham, Akash is your man. He's also training to be a gym instructor, so he can also tell you the difference between quads and glutes. Other than their relative word scores in Scrabble, of course.

Reece Jones

Adminstrator

Reece is here to help get your tenancy sorted. He's right on it, sorting contracts, making sure your right to rent documents are OK and answering any questions you might have.
He's a massive Blues fan (though not as big a fan as Sabrina) and is a semi-pro footballer, playing left midfield for Alvechurch Church FC. When he was a little boy, he dreamed of winning the world cup, but has been hindered in this dream because he's not from Brazil.

Ben Wheatley

Student Blogger

Ben is finishing his degree in Media & Communications at Birmingham City University. He loves writing about all things music and living, always with a bit of personality thrown in. He is a radio producer and presenter, and has his own site alteritymusicuk.com, focusing exclusively on weird and wonderful music.

Hannah Fox

Letting Assistant

Hannah has worked for Purple Frog since 2014, so she knows the Selly Oak area really well and can offer help and advice to anyone who's looking for a great place to live.
She has a Law Degree from BCU and is currently studying her Legal Practice Course. Outside of her academic achievements, she describes herself as having ginger-coloured eyes and is renowned for her ability to walk reeeeaaaaally slowly.

Maisie Gould

Maintenance Assistant

Happy, smiley and friendly are three words that describe Maisie perfectly. That means she fits brilliantly into Purple Frog Selly Oak team, where she's busy putting these attributes to use, finding students their new homes from home.
She also runs her own cake-making business and used to be an editor at a magazine, so you'll be sure there's no typos when she pipes on the 'Happy Birthday Grandma' frosting.